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    The real question behind embedded vs. integrated payments: Creating seamless transactions

    Interested in learning more about embedded payments and how you can leverage them for your business?

    Nov. 18, 2024
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    Opinion

    Payments players should embrace digital currencies

    “Emerging currencies, digital assets, and even next-generation fiat options could be integrated thoughtfully, allowing companies to access new markets,” writes one industry chief revenue officer.

    By Ryan Miller • Nov. 15, 2024
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    E-commerce drives digital payment advances

    As e-commerce activity continues to climb, providers of digital payment tools are likely to keep evolving their online offerings.

    By Payments Dive staff
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    Mastercard aims to cancel manual card entry by 2030

    The card network has documented a spike in online fraud, and contends that numberless cards will reduce such wrongdoing.

    By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Nov. 15, 2024
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    Shift4 CEO bets on crypto and Trump

    The payment processor’s CEO, Jared Isaacman, plans to plunge ahead with a recent crypto initiative, wagering that President-elect Trump will give a boost to the effort.

    By Nov. 14, 2024
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    Private sector merits ‘significant’ payments footprint, Waller says

    The Federal Reserve must consider when to make up for private sector shortcomings in payments, while keeping its role limited, board member Christopher Waller said Tuesday.

    By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Nov. 13, 2024
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    Klarna files for IPO

    The buy now, pay later company announced Tuesday it had filed confidentially with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering.

    By Nov. 13, 2024
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    Young people fall prey to payments fraudsters

    Debit and credit card users under 40 years old are more likely than older peers to experience fraud in making payments, a recent J.D. Power survey found.

    By Nov. 12, 2024
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    Will Shift4 scoop up Lightspeed?

    The acquisitive payments company could be a good fit with the Canadian point-of-sale technology provider, analysts said Monday.

    By Nov. 11, 2024
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    Open banking to move toward FDX standard

    Industry collaboration on open banking is likely to move forward, with or without the CFPB’s recent final 1033 rule, one Jack Henry executive said.

    By Nov. 11, 2024
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    Afterpay to arrive on 24M Cash App cards

    The digital payment company’s leader, Jack Dorsey, aims to create lending services that will appeal to millions of U.S. adults who haven’t had access to other forms of credit.

    By Patrick Cooley • Nov. 8, 2024
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    How Trump’s administration may rework payments policies

    The president-elect and his new administration will have the opportunity to revamp federal government approaches for everything from earned wage access to digital currencies to open banking.

    By Lynne Marek and Patrick Cooley • Nov. 7, 2024
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    Paze gets new leader amid slow start

    Early Warning Services, the bank-owned company that operates Paze, tapped a new leader last month for the digital wallet operation after slow progress in launching the new service. 

    By Nov. 7, 2024
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    Fiserv exec opens up on Walmart, DoorDash partnerships

    Sunil Sachdev, Fiserv’s head of embedded finance, shed light on his company’s latest high-profile collaborations.

    By Nov. 6, 2024
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    Sheetz accepting crypto at all locations

    After a limited trial run, customers can now use several popular digital currencies to buy items at all of the East Coast retailer’s 750-plus locations.

    By Jessica Loder • Nov. 5, 2024
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    Fed aims to make instant payments the norm

    “It's going to be up to us to move instant payments from being novel to being normal,” Federal Reserve Financial Services’ chief payments executive told attendees at a major industry conference.

    By Lynne Marek and Patrick Cooley • Nov. 5, 2024
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    Mastercard gains edge in ancillary services

    The card network is besting its larger rival Visa in the sale of cybersecurity and data services, at least according to one set of analysts who reviewed their recent results.

    By Nov. 5, 2024
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    Stablecoins face obstacles to widespread adoption

    The digital currencies could simplify cross-border payments, but consumers are wary of using them, payments and fintech executives say.

    By Nov. 4, 2024
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    Paytronix acquired by Access Group

    The deal will expand the offerings available through Paytronix’s platform and help accelerate its growth, executives said.

    By Jessica Loder • Nov. 4, 2024
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    5 payments predictions from research firm Forrester

    Cash use worldwide will drop significantly next year, despite its U.S. persistence, the research firm Forrester predicts. Meanwhile, business-to-business acquisitions in the payments realm will pick up.

    By Tatiana Walk-Morris and Lynne Marek • Nov. 1, 2024
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    AI increases fraud risk, fintechs say

    Financial firms monitor for fraud by looking for unusual activity, but an artificial intelligence model can be trained to transact like a real person.

    By Oct. 31, 2024
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    Global Payments sells AdvancedMD for $1.1B

    The payments processor divested the unit as part of a plan to streamline the company’s business, and it’s targeting more sales, CEO Cameron Bready said.

    By Oct. 30, 2024
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    MoneyGram cites cash-to-digital conversion opportunity

    A MoneyGram executive speaking at the Money 20/20 conference cooed about the trillion-dollar opportunity to lure cash users to digital options, but didn’t mention the company’s recent systemwide outage.

    By Lynne Marek and Patrick Cooley • Oct. 30, 2024
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    MoneyGram replaces CEO, naming former Walmart executive to the role

    The money transfer company named the new CEO just weeks after a cyberattack led to a systemwide shutdown of its services for several days.

    By Oct. 29, 2024
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    Finix eyes competition with rivals like Stripe

    The payment processor said Thursday that it raised $75 million and is seeking to grab a bigger slice of a payments market dominated by larger rivals.

    By Oct. 25, 2024
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    Payments trade groups caution World Bank on digital infrastructure

    U.S. payments associations urged the World Bank this week to consider interoperability and private sector involvement in its development of a digital public infrastructure.

    By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Oct. 24, 2024